On: What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all alon...

[Tade0]

Comment nodes, multiple text nodes in one element node, CDATA section.

[wtetzner → Tade0]

Are there any examples of where you'd need that in a web application that's just being used to update the DOM?

None of those seem to be necessary to create a modern web application.

I'm not arguing, just trying to understand.

[Tade0 → wtetzner]

If you have a rich text editor or inline SVG there, you're bound to have to deal with them eventually.

[wtetzner → Tade0]

Why? I'm really trying to understand. If you're directly modifying the DOM, why would you need comments or CDATA tags? Is CDATA useful in a DOM if you don't actually need a textual representation?